France deplored on Wednesday the decision of the Burmese junta to ban the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, which had largely won the legislative elections in Burma in 2015 and 2020.
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The banning of around 40 political parties, including the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi, constitutes a further regression in the freedoms of expression and assembly.
It bears witness to the strategy of systematically dismantling the rule of law in Burma since the coup d'état of February 1, 2021
,” said the spokesperson for the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
“Establishment of a political dialogue”
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France recalls its attachment to the establishment of a political dialogue including the democratic opposition (...), condemns the junta's refusal to listen to the will of the Burmese people,"
and affirms "
its desire to stand resolutely at his side in his fight for justice and democracy
".
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Aung San Suu Kyi's party will lose all legal existence on Wednesday following a decision by a body linked to the military government.
The announcement, from the electoral commission set up by the junta and presented Tuesday on state television MRTV, was justified by technical criteria: the National League for Democracy (LND) "will see its status as a political
party automatically cancelled
" for failing to fulfill the conditions for re-registration.
The military had justified their February 2021 coup by contested accusations of massive electoral fraud in the election won by the NLD in 2020, thus closing a parenthesis of ten years of democratic experience and plunging the country into chaos.
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